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                                        <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><h1>Process Guidance</h1><p class="p1a">
                                                            For a complete discussion of using Kanban specifically for Sustaining 
                                                            Engineering, use the AgileManagement articles found <a href="http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Papers/AKanbanSystemforSustainin.html">here</a>.</p><h2>Roles</h2><p class="p1a">
                                                            This Kanban process template assumes that you use the different work roles of Developer, QA Tester, and Business Analyst. In our Process Template, these are categorized in Areas.</p>
                                                            <p class="p1a">To track the process of your work, there are Iterations that are set to WIP, Testing, Transport and Production.  These are the categories we start out with, please give feedback 
                                                            on what should be here for a standard template.</p>
                                                            <p class="p1a">If you plan to run your Kanban board electronically, check into the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/TFSStickyBuddy">Sticky Buddy project on codeplex</a> started by <a href="http://hinshelwood.com">Martin Hinselwood</a>.  
                                                            This WPF application allows you to display your Kanban board via a projecter rather than using a physical board.</p>
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                                                            &nbsp;</p><h2>Workstreams and Activities</h2><p class="p1a"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 2pt 9pt 6pt" src="images/overview_ws-1.gif" />Roles do activities, which are grouped in workstreams. Activities may produce certain work products and may require work products in certain states before they can be performed. </p><h2>Work Products</h2><p class="p1a">Work products are the documents, spreadsheets, project plans, source code, and other tangible output from the activities.</p></td><td><img height="1" src="images/clear.gif" width="12" /></td><td><h1>Visual Studio Team System</h1><p class="p1a">Visual Studio Team System provides tools that you can use to enact process guidance.</p><h2>Users and Groups</h2><p class="p1a">Team members log in as users. Users belong to groups, which enforce security privileges, and can be used to implement roles.</p><h2>Work Item Database and Metric Warehouse</h2><p class="p1a">Everything planned or tracked for the team project is managed in a database. Those records are called work items. They can track the state of activities or tasks within them.</p><p class="p1"><img src="images/overview_database-1.gif" /></p><p class="p1"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 9pt 4pt" src="images/overview_reports.gif" />Queries and reports let you track your project status health in real time. </p><h2>Source Control and Project Portal</h2><p class="p1a">Team Foundation source control stores some of the work products, such as source code and text. The rest, such as documents, spreadsheets, and project plans are stored on the project portal. Spreadsheets and project plans may be linked to the work item database.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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